On Tue, Oct 14 2008, Paul Wise wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 12:23 PM, Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl> wrote:
>
>> Problem is that even though this may avoid package conflicts, it is *not*
>> correct given the way Debian currently looks for firmware. Also, it is
>> not the way upstream recommends to install firmware.
>>
>> All (non-free) Debian firmware packages install the firmware files
>> directly under /lib/firmware, not /lib/firmware/$kernel-version.
>>
>> And Debian's udev does not consider the kernel-version when looking for
>> firmware. /lib/udev/hotplug.functions has:
>> FIRMWARE_DIRS='/lib/firmware /usr/local/lib/firmware /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware'
>
> In contrast, the latest upstream udev (130) has this:
>
> FIRMWARE_DIRS="/lib/firmware/$(uname -r) /lib/firmware"
Seems like rpm spec files are likely to be changed as well.
manoj